If you are a child of the 80’s, this means you had the privilege of being a teen in the 90’s. And now you’re probably in your 20’s, feeling older than you are…what a drag. So, take a moment to relive your teens via some 80’s movie quote and 90’s movies quotes.

The rules? There are no rules! Well, each movie is only quoted once. And there is a mixture of 80’s movie quotes and 90’s movie quotes. A few errant quotes from childhood and the 2000’s have slipped in, but all’s fair in love and…quotes. If you see an 80’s movie or 90’s movie not quoted here anywhere that you think should be, then please take up the responsibility of commenting with the name of the movie, and perhaps even your favorite quote that you’d suggest to be added.

That woman is a woman!
– Shakespeare in Love

Do you like scary movies, Sydney?
– Scream

“Feeling screwed up in a screwed up place, in a screwed up time, does not mean that you are screwed up.”
– Mark, Pump Up the Volume

It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.
– Fight Club

What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?
– Timon, The Lion King

We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one.
– Save the Last Dance

Rebecca: This is so bad it’s almost good.
Enid: This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.
– Ghostworld

How do you write women so well?
I think of a man and i take away reason and accountability.
– As Good As it Gets

Andie: Our love fern! You let it die!
Ben: No, honey, its just sleeping.
– How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days

Igby: Good things come to obsessive-compulsives who fixate.
– Igby Goes Down

When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way!
– West Side Story

Lance: If you’re OK, say something.
Mia: Something.
– Pulp Fiction

Clay: You don’t look happy.
Blair: But do I look good?
– Less Than Zero

Paris is always a good idea.
– Sabrina

“Despite my appearance at this function, I remain now, & will always be a Duckman!”
– Pretty in Pink

John Keating: Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!
– Dead Poets Society

“I think I understand, but I’m sure I don’t”
– Schmendrick the Magician, The Last Unicorn

Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!
– Margo, All About Eve

Courtney: We just killed our best friend! Do you realize what this means?
Marcie: That you’re a shoo-in for prom queen?
– Jawbreaker

“I don’t think your parents will ever ask me to babysit again”.
“If they do, I’d ask them for a buck more an hour”.
– Adventures in Babysitting

John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.
Ian: Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down,
the pirates don’t eat the tourists.
-Jurassic Park

George Downes: It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
– My Best Friends Wedding

Maggie Carpenter: Bless me Father for I have sinned. My last confession was…well. Anyway, I have sorta a technical question. I’ve been having bad thoughts, really bad thoughts.
Priest Brian: Of an impure nature?
Maggie Carpenter: No, No, I want to destroy this man’s life, career everything. I want revenge. Now on a sins scale how bad is that? Can I Hail Mary my way out of that?
– Runaway Bride

Christian: The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
– Moulin Rouge

There are no victims in this classroom.
– Dangerous Minds

Graham Eaton: You are who you are, the trick is not getting caught!
Megan Williams: Then why are you here?
Graham Eaton: I got caught.
– But I’m Not a Cheerleader

Max: The Von Trapp Family Singers. Here your names: Leisl, Friedrich, Louisa, Brigitta, Kurt, Marta and Gretl.
Gretl: Why am I always last?
Max: Because you are the most important.
– The Sound of Music

Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads!
– Doc, Back To The Future

Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn’t get, or something he lost. Anyway, I don’t think it would have explained everything. I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle…a missing piece. -Citizen Kane

Dude, Where’s My Car? – Dude, Where’s My Car?

That’s when I started breaking into people’s houses. I don’t steel anything, I just rearranged their furniture.
– Bobby, A Chorus Line

We seemed to have gotten off on the wrong foot.”
“That’s all you got lady: two wrong feet and fucking ugly shoes”
– Erin Brockovich

Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?
– The Breakfast Club

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl. Or Boy.
– The Wedding Singer

To be an anarchist in Salt Lake City was certainly no easy task, especially in 1985. And having no money, no job, no plans for the future, the true anarchist position was in itself a strenuous job.
– Stevo, SLC Punk

We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don’t please.
– Lady and the Tramp

Anna: I want to swim naked in the Danube!
Ben : Actually, it’s the Vltava.
Anna: Who wants to swim naked in the Vltava? Nobody said that.
Ben : Because in English,Vltava means ‘unhealthy bacteria level’.
Anna:Yeah, right.
Ben : Why can’t you be free without being naked?
– Chasing Liberty

Sarah Whittle: Alan, you wrestled an alligator for me.
Alan Parrish: It was a crocodile. Alligators don’t have that little fringe on their hind leg.
Sarah Whittle: My mistake.
-Jumangi

Randal Graves: I’m a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.
-Clerks

Stan Fields: Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date.
Cheryl: That’s a tough one. I would have to say April 25th. Because it’s not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.
– Miss Congeniality

It was a run-by fruiting! I’d check with the disgruntled staff!
– Mrs. Doubtfire

Vada: Why do you think people want to get married?
Thomas J. Sennett: When you get old, you just have to.
– My Girl

Hi. I’m Amber Atkins, and I’m signing up cause uh my two favorite people in the whole world competed in pageants: my mom and Diane Sawyer… Course, I hope I end up a little more like Diane Sawyer than my mom.
– Drop Dead Gorgeous

Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that’s ours and ours alone. Something that can’t be learned… something that’s got to be remembered.
– The Legend of Bagger Vance

“Courtney, this is not a democracy, it’s a cheerocracy. I’m overruling you.”
– Torrance, Bring It On

I can’t imagine a little kid not having a toy for Christmas.
– Babes in Toyland

“Be excellent to each other & party on dudes!”
– Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Mary Poppins: Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that’s going a bit too far, don’t you think?
– Mary Poppins

Deputy Wargle: Now ladies, you wouldn’t shoot an unarmed man, would you?”
[Both women cock rifles and point them at him]
Deputy Wargle: Hmm… now that was a dumb question.
– Phantoms

Dewey: Is that a threat, Detective?
Mark: When it’s a threat… you’ll know it.
Dewey: Was that a threat?
– Scream 3

This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever. There was a time not so long ago when pigs were afforded no respect, except by other pigs; they lived their whole lives in a cruel and sunless world. In those days pigs believed that the sooner they grew large and fat, the sooner they’d be taken into Pig Paradise, a place so wonderful that no pig had ever thought to come back.
– Babe

Barbara Novak: We’re acting just like two people…in love!
– Down With Love

Ben Holmes: I haven’t known you that long, but I think there may be something wrong with you.
– Forces of Nature

“I think it’s safe to say that this party is about to become a historical fact”.
– Some Kind of Wonderful

All I want to do is graduate from high school, move to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. Now that might not sound too great to a sconehead like you, but I think it’s swell. And now you show up and tell me I’m a member of the hairy mole club so you can THROW things at me? I don’t THINK so.
– Buffy, the movie

Sarah: did you just say hello?
Worm: no, I said ‘ello, but that’s close enough.
– Labyrinth

I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.
– Billy Madison

Uncle Vernon: And Dudley, you will be?
Dudley Dursley: I’ll be waiting to open the door.
Uncle Vernon: Excellent. And you?
Harry: I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I don’t exist.
– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Joe: This is between a waltz and a tango.
Mia: It’s a wango?
– The Princess Diaries

What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.
Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a thirteen year old girl.
– The Virgin Suicides

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop & look around once in awhile you could miss it.
– Ferris Buellers Day Off

Matt: Have you ever noticed a crack in my ceiling?
Ryan: Dude, you’re action packed with issues.
– 40 Days and 40 Nights

George: What do you want, Mary? Do you want the moon? If you want it, I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down for you. Hey! That’s a pretty good idea! I’ll give you the moon, Mary.
Mary: I’ll take it! Then what?
George: Well, then you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve see, and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair… am I talking too much?
– It’s a Wonderful Life

Merkin: I’m just a little tense. This whole office is not Feng Shui. All the desks are facing evil.
– Never Been Kissed

Mr. Glenn: “By the way, why aren’t you in your PJs? It’s after midnight.”
Janey: “Um, I was dreaming that I was gonna be late for school, so I woke up and I got dressed, and then I looked at the clock.”
Mr. Glenn: “Yeah, but you wear a uniform to school, and that’s not a uniform.”
Janey: “In my dream I went to public school.”
– Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its… stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had different ideas, but nobody seemed to want to listen to them. Not even the Buddhists or the Christians.
– K-Pax

Jonathan: I hope you enjoy the gloves you bought yourself.
Sara: Oh, I’m sure I will, I usually enjoy my own thoughtfulness.
– Serendipity

If I’m not back in five minutes… wait longer.
– Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

That’s it, no more Mr. Nice Duck.
– Howard the Duck

Some day you’ll learn that greatness is only the seizing of opportunity – clutching with your bare hands ’til the knuckles show white.
– National Velvet

Caroline: I have fallen…
Adam: Are you hurt?
Caroline: I wasn’t finished.
Adam: Finish.
Caroline: I have fallen so in love with you, so much more than I said I would.
– Untamed Heart

Bullets? No bullets! Oh my gosh, these are just to scare people. Kinda like a round-off, back handspring, whip back, double full. You never really use it – you just want the opposing squad to know you’ve got it.
– Sugar and Spice

Dusty: “The Suck Zone”. It’s the point basically when the twister… sucks you up. That’s not the technical term for it, obviously.
– Twister

Chastity: I know you can be underwhelmed, and you can be overwhelmed, but can you ever just be, like, whelmed?
Bianca: I think you can in Europe.
– Ten Things I Hate About You

William Somerset: Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.
– se7en

“Now, this car could be system-matic! It could be hydro-matic, ultra-matic. Why, it could be Greased Lightning!”
– Grease

I’m not going to tell the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
– Great Expectations

Ducky: Yup, yup yup!!
– Land Before Time

Jo: What’s going to happen?
Friedrich: The inevitable.
– Little Women

The kingdom of God is within you and all around you. It is not within buildings of wood or stone. Split a piece of wood and you will find me. Look beneath a stone and I am there.
– Stigmata

If you make me look bad, I will never ever talk to you again. Ever.
– Billy, Buffalo 66

Time’s funny. When you’re a kid, it passes slowly, and next thing you’re fifty and your childhood fits into a rusty little box.
– Amelie

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief.
– Emma

Rob Gordon: What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
– High Fidelity

Ren: You like Men At Work?
Willard: Where do they work?
Ren: Noy’re a music group. How about The Police?
Willard: I seen them.
Ren: In concert?
Willard: No, behind you.
– Footlose

Princess Ann: I have to leave you now. I’m going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you.
Joe: All right.
Princess Ann: I don’t know how to say goodbye. I can’t think of any words.
Joe : Don’t try.
– Roman Holiday

Don’t be someone else’s slogan, because you are poetry.
– 28 Days

In America, we have laws. Laws against killing, laws against stealing. And it is just accepted that as a member of American society, you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society which has it’s own laws. Football is a way of life.
– Varsity Blues

Parker: Please, Damon is the biggest practical joker I know. He once convinced a sophomore that he was the middle Hanson brother just so he could get laid.
– Urban Legend

Troy: So what do you say, Lelaina?
Lelaina: I’m not a valedictorian but I play one on tv.
Troy: We all know you slept your way to the podium.
– Reality Bites

“That’s all freedom is…an illusion.”
– Alice, Brokedown Palace

Just Breathe.
– Ever After

Emmett: You fall asleep during the West Wing.
Elle: Yea, but have you seen what they’re wearing?
– Legally Blonde 2

We’ll just tell your mom we ate it all.
– American Pie

“I’ve seen way too many Bond movies to know you never reveal all the details of your plan, no matter how close you may think you are to winning”
– Dogma

Hate is baggage. Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time.
– American History X

Lina: Oh Donny! You couldn’t kiss me like that and not mean it just a teensy bit!
Don Lockwood: Meet the greatest actor in the world! I’d rather kiss a tarantula.
Lina: You don’t mean that.
Don Lockwood: I don’t— Hey Joe, get me a tarantula.
– Singin in the Rain

Well if he’s here- who’s running hell?
– Van Wilder

“I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin’ else.”
– Cynthia, Dazed and Confused

Stanley Motss: The President will be a hero. He brought peace.
Conrad ‘Connie’ Brean: But there was never a war.
Stanley Motss: All the greater accomplishment.
– Wag the Dog

“Men… Can’t live with ’em, can’t shoot ’em.”
– St. Elmos Fire

“How dare those people treat us like we’re stupid teenage girls!”
“We are stupid teenage girls”.
“No. We’re human beings, and we’re American citizens! And four score and seven years ago our forefathers… did something”.
– Dick

I had them take out all the calories for you.
– The Sweetest Thing

T.S.: The cookie stand is an eatery, an eatery is part of the food court.
Brodie: Bullshit! Eateries that operate within the designated square downstairs qualify as food court, anything operating outside the said designated square is considered an autonomous unit for mid-mall snacking.
– Mallrats

Sally Albright: Well, if you must know, it was because he was very jealous, and I had these days of the week underpants.
Harry Burns: Ehhhh! I’m sorry. I need the judges ruling on this. “Days of the weeks underpants”?
Sally Albright: Yes. They had the days of the week on them, and I thought they were sort of funny. And then one day Sheldon says to me, “You never wear Sunday.” It was all suspicious. Where was Sunday? Where had I left Sunday? And I told him, and he didn’t believe me.
Harry Burns: What?
Sally Albright: They don’t make Sunday.
Harry Burns: Why not?
Sally Albright: Because of God.
– When Harry Met Sally

DAMN YOU SCUBA STEVE, DAMN YOU!
– Big Daddy

Jessica Rabbit: I love you more than any woman’s ever loved a rabbit.
– Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Miss Minchin: Don’t tell me you still fancy yourself a princess? Child, look around you! Or better yet, look in the mirror.
Sarah Crewe: I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. All of us. Didn’t your father ever tell you that? Didn’t he?
– A Little Princess

“You know, taking us out for ice cream in the middle of a blizzard makes you wonder who the real whack jobs are.”
– Girl, Interrupted

“Go get that tape measure thing out of the garage”.
“Will you stop ordering us around? You’re not the babysitter!”
“That’s right, Kenny! The babysitter is dead!”
– Don’t Tell Mom The Babbysitters Dead

Addison DeWitt: What do you take me for?
Eve Harrington: I don’t know that I’d take you for anything.
-All About Eve

Sapphire: They don’t even know what it is to be a fan. Y’know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.
– Almost Famous

I’m too old to babysit.
– Adventures in Babysitting

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?
– Trainspotting

I carried a watermelon.
– Baby, Dirty Dancing

“Spandex…it’s a privilege, not a right.”
– Cereal Killer, Hackers

“We should have a plan. Angela Lansbury always had a plan.”
– Helen, I Know What You Did Last Summer

Joe Fox: The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!
-You’ve Got Mail

“My father used to say a person shouldn’t think about dying.
They should think about living.”
– Pollyana

Derek Zoolander: Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?
– Zoolander

Violet: So. . . what do you want?
Kevin: It’s 3 in the morning, I want what every guy wants. Breakfast!
– Coyote Ugly

“Amok, amok, amok!” – Hocus Pocus

Davidson: Remember: one person’s interminable stretch of highway is–
Skye: Is another person’s road to adventure, I know. But going out of our way to see a giant ice-cream cone? That’s crazy.
Davidson: Crazy? Crazy is NOT to see the giant ice-cream cone. How’d you like to tell your friends we were in Baxter–Oh, didja see the giant ice-cream cone? No, we missed it. THAT would be crazy.
– Desert Blue

Teeny: Chrissy, truth or dare?
Chrissy: Truth.
Teeny: Have you ever been french kissed?
Chrissy: Are you kidding? I don’t want to get pregnant!
– Now and Then

Phyllis: I may be a beginner at some things, but I’ve got a black belt in shopping!
– Troop Beverly Hills

Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they?
Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story.
– Say Anything

It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
– Lester, American Beauty

Skylar: My father died when I was thirteen and I inherited this money. Did you ever think that everyday I wake up, that I wish I could give it back, that I would give it back in a second, if it meant I could have one more day with him? But I can’t. And that’s my life and I deal with it.
– Good Will Hunting

Merryweather: [referring to the dress] It’s pink!
Flora: Lovely, isn’t it?
Merryweather: But I wanted it blue.
Flora: Now, we decided that pink was going to be the color.
Merryweather: YOU decided!
– Sleeping Beauty

I’m sorry about that. I didn’t mean to maim you, just kill you.
– The House Of Yes

And don’t forget to fasten your condoms! …Seatbelts, I mean seatbelts.
– George Banks, Father of the Bride

“Sometimes the unknown will disappoint you.”
– Legs, Foxfire

Ever since I saw you with that strawberry Poptart there’s been this unspoken connection between us
– Preston, Can’t Hardly Wait

Kev: Is this toothbrush approved by the American Dental Association?
Clerk: I don’t know, hon. It doesn’t say.
Kev: Well could you please find out?
– Home Alone

Rachel: Gavin thinks some sinister force has taken over the Cradle Bay meatheads.
Steve: A sinister force?
Rachel: You know, evil. Nowhere to turn, no one to trust, altogether ooky.
– Disturbing Behavior

Scarecrow: Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.
– The Wizard of Oz

Emma Russell: Who are you?
Simon Templar: Nobody has a clue. Least of all me.
– The Saint

“Girls, watch out for the weirdos.”
“We are the weirdos, mister.” – The Craft

“Did you know that cigarettes are a shield against meaningful interaction with people?”
– 1,000 Ciggarettes

Scuttle: It’s a dinglehopper. Humans use these little babies… to straighten their hair out. See? Just a little twirl here and a yank there and voila. You’ve got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over. – The Little Mermaid

Gay men are so hot. It’s tragic.
– Claire, Go

Derrick: What are they gonna say?
Travis: It’s just words.
– Gossip

The smartest girl in school caught cheating, it will be scandalous.
– Teaching Mrs. Tingle

[When Jimmy is reluctant to sign a management contract]
Are you crazy? A man in a really nice camper wants to put our song on the radio! Gimme a pen, I’m signin’! You’re signin’! We’re all signin’!
– Lenny, That Thing You Do

Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.
– Thelma and Louise

Amanda: My friend told me this thing about men and sex,
they think about it 238 times a day.
Tom: That’s ridiculous, that would be about every 4 minutes… yeah, that’s about right.
Amanda: I’ve been here 20 minutes.
– Simply Irresistible

You’re in advertising, Kate. I didn’t lie; I sold
– Darcy, Picture Perfect

Derrick: And he looked in my eyes and he said “I don’t understand you.” Isn’t that amazing, that he saw how complex I am?
Mary: Maybe he just didn’t understand you.
Derrick: What do you mean?
Mary: You said he didn’t understand English very well. Maybe he just… didn’t understand you.
– Party Girl

Holden: So, uh, what do you wanna do tonight?
Banky: Mmm, get a pizza, watch “Degrassi Jr. High.”
Holden: You got a weird thing for Canadian melodrama.
Banky: I got a weird thing for girls who say “aboot.”
– Chasing Amy

Steve: You’re a pro. You’re going places.
Donna: You think?
Steve: I’m a pilot. It’s my job to know where people are going.
– A View From The Top

Holly: He’s alright! Aren’t you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven’t got the right to give him one. We don’t belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I’m not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It’s like Tiffany’s.
Paul: Tiffany’s? You mean the jewelry store?
Holly: That’s right. I’m just CRAZY about Tiffany’s! – Breakfast at Tiffanys